During a church visit a man stood
up in front of his electric wheelchair to give a brief witness and testimony,
“I’m grateful to God that I am here today. It is only by His grace that I’m
able to get out among God’s people. I need to be better about serving God
because He is so good to me.” It struck me that most of the lame, the blind and
the crippled in the Bible wanted to
follow Jesus only after they were healed. I
see Paul’s thorn in the flesh as the best example of a person determined to
serve the Lord within the confines of their disability. “Three
times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But
he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made
perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my
weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why,
for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in
persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Cor
12:7 NIV).
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